Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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I have an asus sk8n opteron system. I'm running gentoo on it 32bit only and after a small struggle (nearly) everything is working. The only thing that doesn't work is the onboard NIC. I've got x and dri opengl working with my firegl card. I'm not brave enough to try a 64bit install yet. One question, can someone expand on the mentioned idebus=50 kernel option? what does it do and is it safe?
One last thing, the driver (talking kernel 2.6 test 11) for the promise sata controller is still beta and causes my drives to dma-timeout sometimes.